Honoring Walter Patmon Jr.

Honoring Walter Patmon Jr.

Michael Tercha, Chicago Tribune

The casket carrying the body of firefighter Walter Patmon Jr. is saluted before being lowered from an engine at the Apostolic Church of God, 6230 S. Dorchester Ave. Patmon, 61, died of a heart attack after returning from a fire call on Nov. 11, 2012.

The casket carrying the body of firefighter Walter Patmon Jr. is saluted before being lowered from an engine at the Apostolic Church of God, 6230 S. Dorchester Ave. Patmon, 61, died of a heart attack after returning from a fire call on Nov. 11, 2012. (Michael Tercha, Chicago Tribune)

The casket carrying the body of firefighter Walter Patmon Jr. is saluted before being lowered from an engine at the Apostolic Church of God, 6230 S. Dorchester Ave. Patmon, 61, died of a heart attack after returning from a fire call on Nov. 11, 2012.